Satanist apologizes for killings people he claimed ruined his life

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A judge will rule next month on how long a 29-year-old man who killed two people must spend behind bars before being eligible for parole.

Michael Sirois stabbed Randy Penner to death in February 2004 and also killed Verna Bast, the woman whose home Penner had shared, along with another boarder, for decades.

Bast and her two boarders were members of a Christian house church that Sirois and his parents had once attended.

Sirois, an angry and mentally unstable man who practised satanic rituals, blamed the church for influencing his parents to raise him too strictly.

He pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder.

"I blamed those people for ruining my life when I was a child," Sirois told a sentencing hearing on Monday. "I might have taken it out on the wrong people. I made a terrible mistake. I'm really, really sorry."

The Crown wants Sirois to serve 16 to 18 years before being eligible for parole.

The defence has argued for 14 to 16 years.

Justice Pat Flynn will decide April 14.